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Man charged with endangerment after girl’s death

Man charged with endangerment after girl’s death

A 23-year-old man has been charged with child endangerment in the case of Sophia Martinez, the 13-year-old girl who died New Year’s Day after she was dropped off in an unresponsive state at a friend’s house.

Mario Angeles-Hernandez has been charged with endangering a child, a state jail felony. He provided alcohol to Sophia and her 15-year-old friend at his house in Southeast Austin on New Year’s Eve, according to an arrest affidavit.

The 15-year-old said she awoke New Year’s Day and found Sophia unresponsive on a living room couch, the affidavit said. She yelled for Angeles-Hernandez and his roommate to help, the document said, and after about 30 minutes the roommate drove Sophia and the 15-year-old girl back to the nearby home where the girls were supposed to spend the night.

The 15-year-old told police that she and Sophia had left the home on New Year’s Eve after calling a man they had met at a bus stop a few weeks earlier, the affidavit said. The girl said she saw Sophia drink five servings of vodka and four servings of whiskey before the 15-year-old fell asleep about 2 a.m., it said.

After being dropped off at a the friends home on Lakehurst Drive about 11 a.m., Sophia was taken to Dell Children’s Medical Center, where authorities said she was pronounced dead shortly thereafter.

An autopsy has been performed, but a final ruling is pending toxicology results, according to the Travis County medical examiner’s office. Police have said there were no obvious signs of trauma on the girl’s body.